Recognizing
that the successful futures of Case Western Reserve University, the
City of Cleveland, and the County of Cuyahoga are integrally related,
the Center for Science, Health and Society (CSHS) was created in
2002 to focus the efforts of the University and the city in a significant
new collaboration to impact the areas of health and healthcare delivery
systems through community outreach, education, and health policy.
The Center, based in the School of Medicine, with university wide
associations is engaging the many strengths of the University and
the community to:

Improve the health of the community

Educate and empower the
community to become better consumers of healthcare
and more informed and stronger advocates
for healthcare policy and legislation in
their own interests

Encourage members
of the community enter careers in the biomedical
workforce and healthcare professions

The Center has engaged the community at the level of the individual
and the neighborhood, in public and private schools, at civic and
faith-based organizations, and at the level of governmental agencies
and community leadership to identify community problems, perceptions,
assets and resources; advise the community of faculty skills, assets
and expertise; and, catalyze that community service based scholarship
that benefits community interests and promotes mutual enhancement.